After inspecting every place he could currently reach, Qi Jun was still extremely satisfied. The four thatched huts, however, made him somewhat depressed. They genuinely looked like unsafe buildings ready to collapse. The room where he had first appeared was especially small and low. He had no idea what the other three contained.
Qi Jun walked back to the huts and casually entered the second room from the right. The moment he stepped inside, he froze. From outside, the hut looked barely twenty square meters. How could the interior be this enormous?
Rows upon rows of medicine cabinets dazzled him. He walked over and pulled open a random medicinal drawer. Empty. The label on the drawer was blank too. He opened more than twenty in succession, and every one was the same. Looking around again, he found that only one medicine cabinet in the corner had labeled drawers. Everything else was blank and presumably empty.
He walked over and opened a drawer labeled “star anise.” The instant it slid open, the rich fragrance of star anise drifted out. He carefully examined the labels on the rest of that cabinet and was delighted to discover that all of these medicinal ingredients could also be used as cooking seasonings!
But there were so many empty cabinets he could not even count them. Surely they were not meant to remain empty forever? Could there be seeds somewhere? Thinking of the twenty unused fields, Qi Jun hurried out of the room and rushed into the hut on the left.
It was exactly what he hoped for.
The room was filled with every kind of seed imaginable. Some were wrapped in cloth, some in paper, some stored loose, some placed in drawers, some packed in sacks, and some were even living seedlings. There were so many varieties that he could barely take them all in.
After a rough inspection, Qi Jun found that the overwhelming majority were seeds for traditional Chinese medicinal herbs. A large proportion were also grains and vegetables, many of which possessed considerable medicinal value themselves. There were also fruit trees and rare plants. Fortunately, seeds for the most common crops, vegetables, and fruits had all been placed near the door, with detailed labels that made them easy to identify.
Qi Jun was so excited he wanted to howl a few times. This was not merely timely rain after a drought—it was practically asking for ice and having hail fall from the sky! After seeing these two huts, his curiosity about the last unvisited room became intense.
The final hut did not disappoint him either.